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- Location(s): China, Japan, Northeast (Manchuria)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1900s
Manchuria, 1908: A young woman is found frozen in the snow. Her death is clouded by rumours of foxes, believed to lure people into peril by transforming into beautiful women and men. Bao, a detective with a reputation for...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
On a night-time walk along a Tokyo riverbank, a young man named Nishikawa stumbles on a dead body, besides which is lying a gun. From the moment Nishikawa makes the decision to take the gun, the world around him...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): Early 1700s
Japan, 1709. The shogun is old and ailing. Amid the ever-treacherous intrigue in the court, Sano Ichirō has been demoted from chamberlain to a lowly patrol guard. His relationship with his wife Reiko is in tatters, and a bizarre...
The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel
- Location(s): Mongolia, Shanghai, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th century
Peking, 1914. Eight-year-old Eastern Jewel peers from behind a screen as her father, Prince Su makes love to a servant girl. Caught spying by her thirteenth sister, Eastern Jewel’s sexual curiosity sees her banished to live with distant relatives...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): From 14500BCE to modern
Ever since US Commodore Matthew Perry forced Japan to open its borders in 1853, the culture of this remarkable and distant archipelago has enriched western life. At the same time the country has embraced foreign institutions from baseball to...
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
- Location(s): Dejima
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 18th Century
Be transported to a place like no other: a tiny, man-made island in the bay of Nagasaki, for two hundred years the sole gateway between Japan and the West. Here, in the dying days of the 18th-century, a young...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Her troubled female protagonist in Tokyo is Grey, haunting the thronging streets of Tokyo in search of an elusive piece of film recording the infamous Nanking massacre of 1937. But did the film ever exist? The past is a...
- Location(s): Tokyo, Hokkaido
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 21st Century
Charlie Davis, a modern-day heretic, ditches his past and rushes into a picaresque journey through the glistening nights of Tokyo and the desolate wilds of northern Hokkaido. But the past is not so ready to ditch him; wistful private...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern
A page turning insider’s account fighting crime in Japan. Does for Tokyo what Homicide did for Baltimore.
- Location(s): Tōhoku
- Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
- Era(s): March 11, 2011 Tsunami
Running through my ruined town, pack flapping winglike against my back. Plowing through blocks strewn with heaps of refrigeratorsblackboardsbicyclestaxis bustedpianosshelvedesksstairs allmixedtogether in a marshland grave. In March 2011, a massive tsunami devastates Japan. Kai, a biracial teen from a...
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